I remember going to the Cotton Bowl to play SMU during our Zip year. Unlike
two years earlier when it was a complete shit show, the weather was nice.
Ken Gray and I were talking near the moving van. He headed off somewhere
passing in front of a local JROTC unit. Their commander called them to
attention and they all gave Ken a salute. Ken returned it professionally
without missing a step and carried on like a boss.
Mark R. Kelley
markrkelley77@xxxxxxxxx
On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 1:13 PM Edward Retta <
eretta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Our zip year, when the high school ROTC groups visited for a football game
weekend, those kids saluted me. I guess cause I was wearing boots, who
knows? I just looked at them like they were stupid. The second group tried
the same, so I just saluted back. They seemed pleased. Nowadays young
people hold doors open for me. That's nice. I always salute them.
Edward Retta
On Mar 16, 2021 11:36, Michael Brown <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, the trip down memory lane was fun, but the guy finally admitted his
mom was getting a grad degree in meteorology, and was not part of the
cadre.
I figure his mom was telling him some big stories that may or may not have
been based in facts. I doubt that she spent much, if any time on campus in
uniform, if she was a grad student. Therefore, unlikely that a cadet
refused to salute her.
Even if one did fail to salute, it could have been a confused fish. I
believe I saw some fish try to salute one of the janitors who was wearing
the janitor “uniform”.